Adam Mcdaniel
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Mcdaniel is a PhD student and software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building research-grade and production software, currently serving as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He blends systems and applied programming expertise—demonstrated by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory internship where he built Rusty-CI and contributed to an exascale-capable PDE solver—with practical app development that included porting a medical simulation to Dart for native mobile and desktop. As an educator he’s taught multiple undergraduate CS lab courses and holds a 3.95 GPA in his computer science bachelor’s studies, reflecting strong technical grounding and communication skills. An active open-source practitioner and musician, he brings a creative mindset to tooling and reproducible research workflows. Based in Knoxville, he excels at translating complex numerical and infrastructure problems into maintainable code while mentoring students through hands-on labs and office hours.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at South Doyle High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Pellissippi State Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.95 GPA, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.95 GPA at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (200)
knock10
intermediate10
scripting-language10
lexical-analysis10
structural-typing10
portable10
polymorphism10
memory-management10
dependency-free10
gleam10
x86-6410
golang10
rust10
shell10
algebraic-data-types10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
adam-mcdaniel/rusty-ci
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
A tool to generate buildbot projects from a YAML file
Contributions:226 commits, 183 PRs, 324 pushes in 1 year
twineyamlpythonbuildertricks
adam-mcdaniel/blog
Aug 2020 - Jun 2024
My blog
Contributions:113 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
my-blog
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